Barrel



(No Model.)

S. O. WILLIAMS.

BARREL.

N0.512,783. Patented Jan. 16, 1894.

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UNITED, STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SYLVES'IER O. WILLIAMS, OF EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO.

BARREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 512,783, dated January16, 1894.

Application filed April 22,1893. SerialNo-471,4=01. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SYLvEsTER C. WIL- LIAMS, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of East Liverpool, Golumbiana county, and Stateof Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barrels orSimilar Packages, of which the following is a specification,the'principle of the invention being herein explained and the best modein which I have contemplated applying that principle, so as todistinguish it from other inventions.

The annexed drawings and the following description set forth in detail,one mechanical form embodying the invention; such detail constructionbeing but one of various mechanical forms in which the principle of theinvention may be used.

In said annexed drawings-Figure I rep: resents a side view of myimproved barrel; Fig. II, a horizontal section of the barrel;

. Fig. III, an edge view of one end of a stave,

and Fig. IV, a vertical section of a portion of the end of the barrel,said View illustrating the manner of securing the head in the croze.

The staves A, of the barrel are formed with registering noches, a, intheir edges, so that the barrel will have circumferential rows of holes,when it is set up. Wires, B, are carried around the barrel at said rowsof holes, thus forming wire hoops; and other wires, B, are

located within the barrel,-registerin'g with the outer wires B,-and arelocked to said outer wires by being twisted one or more times aroundsaid outer wires at the holes, or by being otherwise locked to saidwires through the holes. The outer and inner wire hoops are thusconnected and secured to each other and to the barrel by a species oflock stitch. The ends of the staves are preferably held together by theusual end hoops O.

The staves are formed with a croze, a, at each end, and said croze hasits bottom at right angles to its sides, and said sides at such anglesto the inner face of the stave, that the croze will be rectangular tothe axis of the barrel, where the latter is set up and windlassed to itsproper bilge. The edge of the head D, is square, instead of beveled, asin an ordinary barrel, and such square edge may fit into the squarecroze and have a more secure seat than if its edge were beveled and thecroze of the usual acute angular notch shape.

The wire hooping for the barrel will render the latter elastic, and thebarrel cannot easily be stove in or fall to pieces, as the interlaced orinterlocked hoop wires will hold the staves in their proper position.

Other modes of applying the principle of my invention may be employedfor the mode herein explained. Change may therefore be made as regardsthe mechanism thus disclosed,provided the principles of construction setforth respectively in the following claims are employed.

I therefore particularly point out and distinctly claim as myinvention- 1. In a barrel or similar package, the combination of staves,formed with registering notches intheir edges, with wire hoops upon theoutside and inside of the barrel and interlocked through the holesformed by said registering notches, substantially as set forth.

2. In a barrel or similar package, the combination of staves formed withregistering notches in their edges, said notches forming circumferentialrows of holes, wires drawn around the barrel at said rows of holes, andwires drawn Within the barrel at said rows of holes and carried aroundsaid outside wires through said holes, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing to be my invention I havehereunto set my hand this 11th day of April, A. D. 1893.

SYLVESTER O. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

J. H. BROOKES, H. E. GROSSHARES.

